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...President Ferdinand Marcos, voters delivered a stunning message: they were ready for change and prepared to fight for it. Before the election, the President had publicly prophesied a routine landslide victory for his Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (K.B.L.), or New Society Movement. Even the opposition umbrella group known as UNIDO (United Nationalist Democratic Organization) had prudently set its sights no higher than raising the number of opposition seats in the 200-member Batasang Pambansa (National Assembly) from 14 to 30. Final results will not be in until this week, but according to NAMFREL's estimate last Saturday, opposition parties...
...votes, demonstrators conducted a candlelight march on Manila's city hall, waving placards that proclaimed, NINOY, YOU HAVE NOT DIED IN VAIN!, TALLY SHEET, NOT TALLY CHEAT! and ONE VOTE, ONE COUNT! In the capital's commercial center of Makati, a recount took away the victory of UNIDO Candidate Aurora ("Au-Au") Pijuan-Manotoc, 34, the former wife of Sportsman Tommy Manotoc, who is now married to the President's daughter Imee. Au-Au's outraged followers responded by storming the Makati city hall, flinging stones against the building and burning furniture in its courtyard...
...dominated election commission has decided that in 101 of the 200 constituencies, that role should be played by an obscure pro-government party. Thus, opposition leaders claim, the government would in effect be assured of victory in the majority of seats. Outfoxed yet again and outraged, the opposition coalition, UNIDO, has now refused to run unless it is soon named "dominant opposition party" instead. "Marcos," says Opposition Official Linggoy Alcuaz, "has given us enough concessions to divide...
...against a peaceful transition to post-Marcos democracy had tragically lengthened. Deprived of their most visible leader, the President's moderate opponents called for Marcos' resignation and for the formation of a caretaker government prior to national elections. The moderates, however, grouped in an umbrella organization called UNIDO (United Nationalist Democratic Organization), stopped short of calling for a boycott of parliamentary elections scheduled for next year...
...Patriotic Front now includes the leftist Pueblo Unido or United People's Movement (students, progressive professionals and trade unions), a respected group of national leaders called Los Doce ("The Twelve"), and, most importantly, the Sandinista Front (FSLN), which spearheaded the opposition movement from the beginning. The Twelve includes the famous Jesuit priest Ernesto Cardenal, and used to include the popular editor of the opposiition newspaper La Prensa, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro. Chamorro was gunned down on his way to work in January 1978, and his assassination touched a spree of rioting and burning of buildings in the capital city of Managua...